Tag: Heartbreak Ridge

The Woodfin truck showed up a few minutes before kickoff. We were all astounded! Handshake is early! However, Señor Frog stepped out of the truck. A few minutes later, another Woodfin truck showed up. Expectations were fulfilled.

Speaking of Handshake, he was disappointed in my lack of creativity. That, plus a desire to relive my youth when I was only 69, we repeated a some golden oldies.

Warmup:

Mosey over to the parking lot in front of Quioccasin

20 SSHs

10 Shoulder slap Merkins

15 Knee-ups

Stretch

Mosey over to the wall on the side of school

20 IWs

10 Diamond Merkins

15 Crunchy Frogs

Stretch

Mosey to parking lot at Pemberton

20 squats

10 Stagger arm Merkins

15 American Hammers

Stretch

Mosey to another place in the parking lot at Pemberton

20 Lunges

10 Stagger arm Merkins

15 LBCs

Mosey to the wall at Pemberton

15 People’s chair airpress

10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence

15 Donkey Kix OYO

15 People’s chair Milkers

10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers

15 Donkey Kix OYO

15 People’s chair LaLannes

10 BTTW toe taps

15 Donkey Kix OYO

Mosey to playground with Pull-up bars behind Pemberton

10 Pull-ups, 20 Merkins, 30 Squats 3x

Mosey to grass in front of Quioccasin

Elbow plank for 60 count

Side plank for 30 count

Other side plank for 30 count

Over to the benches in front of Quioccasin

Round 1

10 Bulgarian split squats in cadence

10 Bulgarian other leg in cadence

10 Derkins

10 Dips in cadence

Round 2

10 Bulgarian split squats in cadence

10 Bulgarian other leg in cadence

10 Dips in cadence

Stretch

10 Derkins in cadence

Round 3

10 Bulgarian split squats in cadence

10 Bulgarian other leg cadence

10 Dips in cadence

Mosey to flag

20 Dollies

20 Heels to Heaven

20 Rosalitas

20 LBCs

Numberrama

Name o Rama

Announcements:

Today at noon: Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook: Lunch

Take out by YHC

Five faithful veteran PAX posting in perfect March weather for a HD beatdown. We did:

COP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Don Qs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Flutterkicks, Merkins, Scorpion kicks. Mosey over to covered end of school: Alternate between bear crawl and Lunges with 5 HRMs and 10 Squats at change overs. Mosey over to PES pullup bars: 4 rounds of 7 Pullups and WWIIs.

4 Corners on PES field with 20 HRMs, 25 Flutterkicks, 30 Jump Squats, 35 Carolina Dry Docks.

Mosey over to QMS track: 10 Step ups, 20 Diips, 40 Bench kicks. Repeato +5 reps each. Per PAX request over to Jerkin Gym: 4 sets of 7 Jerkins. Finish with few rounds up and down Heartbreak hill with burpees at the top. 2 min of mary back at Flag and YHC took us out.

NMS: Small but strong pax at HBR. Always good to Q with a small but strong group, no 10 counts or waiting around for the 6, just consistent movement.

No real barbs between Handshake and Atilla, besides the flatulence kind. The ladies workout group was getting setup as we blew past them after knocking out our pullups. PAX age range was quite narrow between 39 and 47.

Despite Handshake’s desire to make this a male stripper led workout, a noble PAX assembled for full-body beat-down.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Dead man hang
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the parking lot for a burpee march – one burpee per parking space across the parking lot following by 15 WWII sit-ups and 15 APD; rinse and repeat back across
• 11s at the picnic tables – derkins and step-ups (each leg)
• Mosey to the jerkin gym – 8 reps 4x
• Mosey to the Heartbreak hill for a Dora
  • 100 merkins
  • 200 squats
  • 300 LBC
  • Bernie Sanders up the hill and run back down
• Cool down run on the track
• COT with YHC taking us out

CUSAP coming up at Curahee on May 6^th.  Talk to Gypsy.  It is co-ed. It is a CUSAP.

Great work by the PAX today.  Thanks for putting up with YHC’s slower pace.  Handshake started the workout with discussing potential male stripper names, completely on character. We went down the path of potential questionable stripper moves, with 5:30 am striking at just the right time. Apologies to Handshake that he did not get lay witness to the hairy monster as he hoped.  Maybe you can live your dreams on another day. 

Prayers up for Gypsy’s cousins in NICU.  God is good all of the time! 

Attila

Nothing to see here..  just a bunch of pax doing some exercise while talking about Riding your Mom’s bike…. Clydesdales cuddling, Guys from West Virginia winning dunking contests Honeydo’s lunge form..
oh wait… that was all Handshake talking about stuff.

It was good to back out in the Gloom with the bootcamp brothers.  Not gonna lie, my runners arms have seen slim to no work in almost 6 months.. full focus on running has made me faster for running races, but i am far less fit than i was this time last year.  while i was struggling to complete Merkins and Pull ups the rest of the pax was bat flippin the work out today.  Great work by all.. I have lots of work to do to catch back up… and it all started today.

How does that saying go.. You can either start it one day or make today day one.

The Thang:
0530 Pigskin comes rolling in on 2 wheels
0532 Disclaimer and we mosey to the Black top behind the school for COP

COP:  I.W, SSH, Plank to warm up

1st Event: 4 corners (each exercise completed to 15 then run to next corner.)

• Round 1:
  • Corner 1: WW2, Corner 2: Flutters, Corner 3: Reverse Crunch, Corner 4: LBC
  • Corner 1: Squats, Corner 2: Jump Squats, Corner 3: Lunges, Corner 4: Sumo Squats
  • Corner 1:  Merkins, Corner 2: Wide Arm Merkins, Corner 3: Carolina Dry Dock, Corner 4: Diamond Merkin
  • Corner 1: WW2, Corner 2: Merkin, Corner 3: Squats, Corner 4: Burpee

Mosey to the hill
2nd Event:  Heart Break Hill Triple check
3 PAX of 3 pax for 3 rotations1 does WW2s, 1 pax does Squats, 1 pax runs to bottom of hill and back.  Swap until all pax have completed all items 3 times

Mosey around the track to the pull up bars.
Ring of fire pull-up addition. (Twice)  Each pax holds plank while others do 5 pull ups in a rotation fashion until your turn.

Mosey around the track to the bleachers.
15 dips, 15 2 count flutters, 15 American hammers
22 dips, 22 2 count flutters, 22 American hammers
30 dips, 30 2 count flutters, 30 American hammers.

Mosey back to launch.
On your 6.. hold feet 6″ off ground until 6 is in.
60 seconds of Flutters.

All Done.

Thank you guys for coming out and pushing me today.  i appreciate you all.

SYITG!! I’m going to bed now.. getting up at 530 is rough and i have WTH guys to see tomorrow.

V/R
John (Gypsy) Boles

It all started on Tuesday February, 14th, 2017 with a text message from Handshake to HoneyDo that he was disappointed in how his Valentine’s Day went and wanted to celebrate the next Tuesday Valentine’s Day with an epic beatdown at Quioccasin Middle School. They went in search of a Q worthy of such a beatdown and added Gypsy on February 15th, 2017, but he said he would be running in 2023. Then they tried Whitesnake on March 1st, 2017, but Whitesnake said he had February 14th, 2023 down on his calendar to develop new backblast ideas from 80s song lyrics. And on it went until February 13th, 2023 when HoneyDo added YHC to the text chain (the 20th) and asked for 45 minutes of Upright Alabama Prom Dates. Sure.

YHC started to brainstorm some ideas for a Q while packing that night, wrote a few things down, then ended up making stuff up along the way. Good thing Tryhard wasn’t there conducting Q evaluations.

The Thang:

Mosey to that dark place in the corner for COP: SSHs x20 IC. Upright Alabama Prom Dates x4.5 IC. CCDs, Scorpion Kicks, Reverse Crunches, Helicopters IC.

Mosey to the covered side of the school for Sally: to the tune of Moby’s Flower, do a Merkin on “Bring Sally Up”, hold a 6-inches on “Bring Sally Down”.

Mosey back to the concession stand for a Triple Check: People’s Chair, Reverse Crunches, and the timer runs backwards up the hill and run back down.

Mosey to the track for a synchronized Triple Check: Dips and Star Jumps. The timer runs a lap or lunges in the opposite direction until the lead runner passes the halfway mark, and lunges back. PAX continues until the first timer returns and Al Gore for the six.

Mosey back to the flag for the COT.

Announcements: Lunch was at Firehouse Subs – hope it was great!

NMS:

The lights came on during the 3rd rep of Upright APDs. Perhaps we were caught on camera. YHC was done at 2, anyway.

HBR proverb of the day: It’s harder if you do it right. That is, indeed, what she said.

Attila and Handshake in a little toy shop
Buy a gun to shoot a balloon with the money they’ve got
Set them free at the break of dawn
‘Til one by one, the balloon was gone
Back at base, sparks in the software
Flash the message “Something’s out there”
Floating in the summer sky
9 Heartbreak studs go by
(music break)

9 benign Heartbreak studs
Warming up in the summer sky
Panic bells, it’s red alert
There’s something here from somewhere else
The Global Warming springs to life
Opens up Honeydo’s eye
Focusing it on the sky
The 9 benign Heartbreak studs go by

99 Decision Street
It is time for BLIMPS to meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the BLIMPS out in a hurry
This is what we’ve waited for
This is it boys, this is war
Whitesnake Q is on the line
As 9 benign Heartbreak studs run by

9 knights on the baseball field
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone’s a Merkin hero
Everyone’s a Burpee Jerk
With orders to identify
WWIIs and classify
Squatting in the summer sky
As 9 benign Heartbreak studs go by
(music fades)

99 dreams Handshake had
In every one, an Attila grunt
It’s all over, and he’s standing pretty
In this dust that was a city
If he could find a souvenir
Just to prove he was here
And then Attilla’s busting ass
He thinks of Handshake, and let’s another one go

Another week of build-up for what was expected to be a ground and pound, never leave the parking lot, 10 minutes of burpees Q.  Much hype from Honeydo, and no show, but for 11 noble warriors, here is what they endured:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the black top behind the school for 4 corners with 10, 15, 20 & 25 reps for the following:
  • HRM
  • WWII sit-ups
  • Monkey humpers
  • 2x flutter kicks
• Mosey to the Heartbreak hill for an 11 with H2H and Chuck Norris merkins (that is 10 runs up and down the hill)
• Mosey to the jerkin gym for 4x 8 reps of jerkins
• Cool down run on the track
• Bernie Sanders up the incline to the parking lot for COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX today.  What we learned….Roger Roger can land a plane with one wing, one computers, ½ its engines in the snow on a sandy, short runway.  Not quite, but yeah, he is a stud at the helm.  T-claps for keeping folks safe during a major mechanical issue.   Pinto will celebrate his 50^th as a man of the people skiing in Switzerland.  Pigskin is back, and he is about to be as good as new.  We are all just living in his world.   Great to see him overcoming injury, and good to know the rest of us are just soft in comparison. God is good all

7 showed up on a cold morning. Attila was not feeling well, so YHC had to try to fill his big shoes. When unsure, YHC asked himself: “What would Attila do?” After a warm up, we started with Curb Crawl up to 5 Merkins and down to one. After that, YHC offered choice between dry asphalt and wet field, the pack voted for the field. So, we did Beast on the field with LBCs, Squats, Hand-Release Merkins, Flutters, Jump-Squats, and Burpies. YHC tried to slow down and asked folks to count, but count went so fast, that Q had no choice but continue. We did a loop around the track. Then, three rounds of eight Jerkins. After that ran to the hill and did Noah’s Arc with five WWII at the top: Bear Crawl, Polar Bear Crawl, Bunny Hops, Bernie, Cheetah. Still more time on the clock. Ran to a wall and did two rounds of Wall Sits, ten Chicken Peckers, and fifteen Donkey Kicks. Almost time, so ran to the flag and held legs 6-inches from the ground for count of 60. What a great way to start your day!

The perfect number small PAX count assembled at HBR with an assurance of a rain-free beatdown courtesy of YHC. We’ll leave it to the meteorologists to check the accuracy of the Qs claims but we did:

COP: SSH, Don Qs, IPs, Merkins, LBCs, Scorpion Kicks.

Mosey over to the properly illuminated PES front lot for a triple check: HRMs, Heels2Heaven, & Run the loop. Mosey to side lot for rotating Donkey kick & Peoples chair line. Over to Pullup station: 4 rounds of 8 Pullups & WWIIs. 3 Rounds of 25 PLTs.

Over to benches for some challenging math: 10 Derkins & 20 Benchkicks. 4 rounds while increasing each by half of the original count (very straightforward). Finish with a partner bear crawl across the blacktop and 2 min of Mary at end. Atilla took us out.

NMS: Sometimes life is a paradox; if you want to lose weight order a Clydesdales F3 shirt. That is sure to get you under 200 lbs as Atilla can attest. Lighthouse showed up in fully absorbent cotton attire confident in the No rain call that YHC texted out yesterday afternoon. Whitesnake arrived ready to post in -48 degree temps rather than the comfortable 48 degree temps we had. Maybe he’s trying to sweat off some extra lbs.

Offshore struggled with the multi-variable algebra required to complete the Benchkicks & Derkins escalator. Between Lighthouse and him with 2 PhDs in mathematic related fields they were able to finish. We were missing one of our HBR mainstays this morning, apparently the pull of the fartsack was too strong.

Clock hit and ten gloom warriors braved the 26 degree warm and sunny beatdown that went a little like hey Q is open. “I’ll take it” 

Mosey off campus to find ourselves with a little COP in Fargo. Felt that cold but we quickly Warmed up:

25x SSH 

10x Don Q

10x merkin 

10x copperhead squats

20x Freddy mercuries

Mosey to top of Fargo to do an alley kat:

Run the alley back and forth and do the sequence of:

10 merkins 20 mountain climbers

10 merkins 20 plank jacks

10 merkins 25 LBCs

10 merkins 20 squats

10 merkins 20 flutters

Mosey around Einstein and do 

10 merkins 10 2count ball dippers

10 merkins 20 lbc.

Mosey up around the alley:

10 merkins mid way 50 LBCs

10 merkins and 20 WW2s

Mosey back to campus where we found two additional pax. We headed up to the back wall and proceeded to partner up.

Peoples chair air press timer runs x 2

Squats timer runs switch

Merkins timer runs switch 

Mosey back to flag for stretch-o-Rama 

Some announcements: I’m trying to remember Post in comments gents! Sorry it’s late and the gloom comes early.